On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> Mike Silbersack writes:
> >
> > Once that's done, it'll probably be a matter to send a clawhammer
> > system and a large box of cheese and crackers to the guys who did the
> > freebsd alpha port. If the architecture is actually so similar to x86,
> > it should only take them a few weekends. :)
>
> As one of the FreeBSD/alpha porters, I must point out that I don't
> know diddly-squat about low-level x86isms. I've never even written a
> line of x86 assembly.
Hm, no cheese or crackers for you then. The reason I figured alpha
experience would help is because I suspect that the important part of the
porting would be the 32 -> 64 bit conversion; everything else _should_ be
similar enough that it would be straightforward to convert for someone
familiar with the lowlevel innards. (If the end product works how they
have personified it, at least.) I guess getting dual 64/32 bit mode
could be tricky, though.
> What's the timeframe that they're shooting for with this beast, anyway?
>
> Drew
The first x86-64 chips (the clawhammer series) are supposed to ship in the
first half of 2002.
Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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